Sophie Buchaillard and Francesca Reece

Two Hay Festival Writers at Work/Awduron Wrth eu Gwaith alumni discuss their work with author Tiffany Murray. Sophie Buchaillard's debut novel This is Not Who We Are was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award in 2023. In her latest book Assimilation, Buchaillard takes us on a world tour through history exploring identity while pursuing spies, drug dealers – and a talking bear. Francesca Reece is a writer and translator from North Wales, winner of the 2019 Desperate Literature Prize. Reece’s Glass Houses is a love story reckoning with class, second home ownership, and Welsh identity.